SLAS 6009 Quantitative Research Design
This course explains the quantitative research design in social sciences. It provides students with variety of quantitative research designs and the necessary procedures of each design in order for them to conceptualize their doctoral thesis research. The course also provides fundamentals of probability and statistics for data analysis in research. Topics include data collection, exploratory data analysis, random variables, common discrete and continuous distributions, sampling distributions, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, linear regression, analysis of variance, two (2)-way tables, and data analysis using statistical software. The course also provides statistical methods and applications to social science problems, samples and populations, frequency distributions, probability theory, basic distributions, random sampling, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing and linear regression and correlation. The course offers students an opportunity to acquire and practice skills in analyzing quantitative data.